It’s Time To Hire a Real Tech Team for Your Startup

These days, you can get pretty far without experienced help, but the fall can be dramatic

Hiring experienced technical help is one of the most important and most expensive decisions a startup founder is ever going to make. The problem is, most startups bring on dedicated tech resources either too early or too late, and in either case, the results are usually disastrous. So how do you know when the time is right to take such a huge risk?

I’m currently building Teaching Startup, a tech-based product with a self-imposed rule of using only no-code tools — and it has very quickly become a revenue-generating product that already has tons of customers. On the other hand, I’m also head of product at a startup with the best tech team I’ve ever worked with.

I love no-code. I love minimum viable products (MVP). I love getting maximum value for minimal effort. But I’m also a former developer, so I know the pain of limping along to product-market fit then and spending hours every day working around the product’s shortcomings, especially on the administrative end.

The simple truth is this: Hiring a technical co-founder, a CTO, a genius coder or an outside development firm will not magically solve all of your technical needs. In fact…